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PUBLIC  LIBRARY 


INFORMATION  AND 
REGULATIONS 


MILTON,  MASS. 

PUBLISHED  BY  THE  TRUSTEES 

1907 


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Opened  February  23,  1871 
Present  building  opened  June  11,  1904 

TRUSTEES 

Amor  L.  Hollingsworth,  Chairman 

Nathaniel  T.  Kidder,  Treasurer 

Roderick  Stebbins,  Secretary 

Orrin  a.  Andrews 

H.  Helm  Clayton 

John  F.  Perkins 

Charles  E.  Rogerson 

Arthur  H.  Tucker 

Joseph  C.  Whitney 


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LIBRARIAN 

Gertrude  Emmons  Forrest 


BRANCHES 


East  Milton  Reading  Room 

Ellsworth  Building,  Adams  Street 
Josephine  M.  Babcock,  Assistant  in  charge 

Mattipan  Reading  Room 

Bartlett’s  Library  Building,  corner  Blue  Hills  Parkway 
and  Blue  Hill  Avenue 
Ellen  F.  Vose,  Assistant  in  charge 

Russell  Reading  Room 

Corner  Randolph  Avenue  and  Hillside  Street 
Jennie  W.  Kennedy,  Assistant  in  charge 

A weekly  delivery  of  books  from  the  Central 
Library  to  the  East  Milton  and  Mattapan  Read- 
ing Rooms  is  made  on  Tuesday  ; to  the  Russell 
Reading  Room  on  Saturday. 

A weekly  house-to-house  delivery  in  Blue 
Hill  and  Brush  Hill  districts  is  made  on  Thurs- 
day. 

DEPOSIT  STATIONS 

Convalescent  Home  Town  Farm 

Melley  Shop  Station  Public  Schools 

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Deliveries  of  books  to  the  schools  are  made 
as  follows : — 

Glover  and  Houghton,  the  first  Monday  of 
each  month. 

Belcher  and  Wadsworth,  the  first  Tuesday 
of  each  month. 

High,  Consolidated,  and  Thacher,  the  first 
Thursday  of  each  month. 

Tucker  and  Sumner,  the  last  Thursday  of 
each  month. 


LIBRARY  HOURS 

Central  Library,  week  days,  9 a.m.  to  6 P.M., 
legal  holidays  excepted.  Wednesday  and  Sat- 
urday evenings,  6 to  9.  Sundays,  12  M.  to 

5 p.m.,  November  to  May. 

East  Milton  Reading  Room,  week  days,  3 to 
5.45  p.m.  and  6.30  to  8.30  p.m.,  legal  holidays 
excepted.  Closed  at  6 p.m.  Thursdays  during 
July  and  August. 

Mattapan  Reading  Room,  week  days,  3 to 
8 p.m.  , legal  holidays  excepted.  Closed  at 

6 p.m.  Thursdays  during  July  and  August. 
Russell  Reading  Room,  Friday  and  Saturday 

evenings,  7 to  9,  legal  holidays  excepted. 


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INFORMATION  AND  REGULATIONS 


GENERAL  INFORMATION 

The  library  is  free  to  all  residents  of  Milton. 
Temporary  residents  are  granted  the  same 
privileges  as  residents. 

The  library  system  consists  of  the  central 
library,  three  branch  reading  rooms,  three 
deposit  stations,  and  a house-to-house  delivery 
covering  Blue  Hill  and  Brush  Hill.  The 
house-to-house  delivery  service  is  made  pos- 
sible by  the  income  of  a fund  left  by  the  late 
Governor  Wolcott  for  that  purpose. 

In  addition  to  the  weekly  delivery,  there  are 
at  each  branch  reading  room,  from  two  hun- 
dred to  four  hundred  books  on  deposit,  some 
of  which  are  changed  each  month,  and  which 
may  be  taken  out  in  the  regular  way. 

Books  borrowed  at  the  central  library  may 
be  renewed  or  returned  at  any  of  its  branches  ; 
books  borrowed  at  the  branches  may  also  be 
renewed  or  returned  at  the  central  library. 


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A Bulletin  giving:  titles  of  new  books  added 
to  the  library  is  published  quarterly ; it  is 
ready  for  distribution  about  the  15th  of  Janu- 
ary, April,  July,  and  October,  and  may  be 
obtained  free  at  the  central  library  or  at  the 
branches.  It  will  be  mailed  to  any  address 
for  twenty -five  cents  a year. 

Recommendations  for  the  purchase  of  books 
not  in  the  library  should  be  made  on  the  regu- 
lar forms  provided  for  that  purpose.  Such 
recommendations  receive  careful  consideration. 

By  a system  of  inter-library  loan,  this  library 
is  often  able  to  borrow  from  other  libraries 
books  needed  for  special  research.  Applica- 
tion for  inter-library  loan  should  be  made  to 
the  librarian. 

The  library  is  classified  by  the  Dewey  deci- 
mal system,  the  main  classes  of  which  are  the 
following : — 

000  General  works  500  Natural  science 

100  Philosophy,  includ-  600  Useful  arts 
ing  Ethics  700  Fine  arts 

200  Religion  800  Literature 

300  Sociology,  ^including  900  History,  including 
Education  Biography  and 

400  Philology  Travel 


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No  numbers  are  assigned  to  English  fiction, 
which  should  be  called  for  by  author  and  title. 

The  children’s  room  is  open  daily  from  9 
a.m.  to  6 p.m.  Here  are  shelved  about  twenty- 
five  hundred  books  suitable  for  boys  and  girls 
under  sixteen  years  of  age.  No  book  is  added 
to  this  collection  which  is  not  first  reviewed, 
and  the  reading  of  the  children  who  use  the 
room  is  carefully  supervised.  Parents  desir- 
ing help  in  the  selection  of  books  for  their 
children  should  consult  with  the  assistant  in 
charge,  who  has  for  reference  selected  lists  of 
books  suitable  for  all  ages. 

The  library  receives  regularly  over  seventy 
periodicals.  With  the  exception  of  a few  du- 
plicates, the  current  numbers  do  not  circulate. 

At  the  end  of  the  current  month  all  periodi- 
cals may  be  taken  out  and  may  be  kept  seven 
days  ; at  the  end  of  the  second  month  they  may 
be  kept  fourteen  days. 

Bound  volumes  of  periodicals  circulate  under 
the  same  rules  as  books,  except  bound  volumes 
back  of  ten  years,  which  are  not  issued  for 
home  use. 

The  library  has  several  hundred  photo- 
graphs, illustrating  Greek  and  Roman  sculp- 

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lure,  Italian  art,  cathedrals,  etc.,  which  may 
be  taken  from  the  library. 

Exhibits  of  photographs  or  paintings  are 
often  held  in  the  art  room,  notices  of  which 
are  bulletined  at  the  library  and  announced  in 
the  local  newspapers. 

REGISTRATION 

Registration  may  be  made  at  the  central 
library  or  at  any  of  its  branches.  The  signa- 
ture of  a parent  or  guardian  is  required  for 
persons  under  twenty-one  years  of  age.  Each 
person  registered  is  assigned  a number,  which 
should  always  be  given  to  the  assistant  at  the 
desk  when  taking  out  books.  If  call  slips  are 
sent  to  the  library,  this  number  should  be  put 
on  each  slip.  Registrations  are  good  for  two 
years  (provided  the  person  remains  a resident 
of  the  town),  at  the  end  of  which  time  they 
must  be  renewed,  in  order  that  addresses  may 
be  kept  up  to  date. 

Borrowers  are  requested  to  report  change  of 
residence  at  once. 

The  person  in  whose  name  a book  is  issued  is 
responsible  for  all  fines  accruing  upon  the  same. 


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BOOKS  FOR  HOME  USE 


All  borrowers  are  allowed  as  many  books 
as  they  may  need  at  one  time,  provided  but  one 
is  a seven-day  book. 

New  fiction,  current  periodicals,  and  certain 
other  books  for  which  there  is  great  demand, 
are  issued  for  seven  days  only  and  are  not  re- 
newable. Other  books  may  be  kept  fourteen 
days  and  may  be  renewed.  If  books  for  special 
study  are  needed  for  more  than  fourteen  days, 
borrowers  should  state  at  the  issue  desk  the 
length  of  time  required. 

All  books  at  the  end  of  fourteen  days  are 
subject  to  recall  if  needed  by  other  borrowers. 

The  date  when  a book  is  due  is  stamped  on 
the  dating  slip  at  the  back  of  each  book  issued. 

Certain  books,  on  account  of  their  cost, 
rarity,  or  character,  are  withheld  from  general 
circulation. 

Teachers  may  take  from  the  library  such 
books  as  are  needed  by  their  pupils  for  sup- 
plementary reading,  subject  to  such  rules  as 
the  librarian  may  prescribe,  the  expense  of 
transportation  to  be  borne  by  the  schools. 


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RENEWAL 

Books  issued  for  seven  days  are  not  renew- 
able. 

Books  issued  for  fourteen  days  rnay  be  re- 
newed. 

Books  issued  for  more  than  fourteen  days 
may  be  renewed  only  when  such  renewal 
does  not  interfere  with  the  needs  of  other 
borrowers. 

Renewal  may  be  made  by  mail  or  telephone, 
the  request  stating  borrower’s  number,  the  title 
and  number  of  the  book,  and  the  date  on  which 
it  becomes  due. 

Transfer  of  books  from  one  borrower  to 
another  is  not  allowed. 

RESERVE 

Reserve  postal  cards  may  be  purchased  for 
one  cent  at  the  central  library  or  at  the 
branches.  These  cards  should  be  filled  out 
with  the  title  of  the  book  desired  and  properly 
addressed.  When  the  book  comes  in,  the 
postal  card  will  be  sent  to  the  borrower  and 
the  book  will  be  held  for  him  two  days. 


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FINES 


A fine  of  two  cents  per  day  (legal  holidays 
excepted)  is  charged  on  each  book  kept  out 
over  the  time  allowed,  and  three  cents  for  each 
notice  of  such  detention  sent  by  post. 

For  every  two  weeks  a book  is  over  de- 
tained, an  additional  penalty  of  twenty-five 
cents  is  charged. 

One  week  after  a book  is  due,  notice  is  sent 
to  the  person  to  whom  the  book  was  issued ; 
and  two  weeks  after  a book  is  due  a second 
notice  is  sent. 

Borrowers  are  expected  to  note  the  expira- 
tion of  the  time  limit.  No  claim  to  exemption 
from  fine  can  be  established  because  of  the 
failure  of  any  notice  to  or  from  the  library. 

Fines  continue  to  accumulate  for  a period 
of  four  weeks,  from  the  time  when  the  book 
should  have  been  returned,  unless,  prior  to 
expiration  of  that  period,  the  borrower  reports 
the  book  as  lost  and  pays  the  full  cost  of  re- 
placing it. 

A book  so  detained  for  more  than  four  weeks 
shall  be  considered  lost,  and  the  person  detain- 
ing it  shall,  in  addition  to  accrued  fines,  pay 
the  full  cost  of  replacing  the  book. 

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All  books  must  be  returned  to  the  library 
whenever  the  trustees  so  order,  and  a fine  of 
one  dollar  will  be  charged  for  each  volume 
detained  after  a time  limit  has  been  given  by 
special  notice  by  mail. 

CONTAGIOUS  DISEASE 

Books  will  not  be  received  from  houses  in 
which  there  is  contagious  disease,  nor  will 
they  be  issued  to  persons  living  in  such  houses 
during  the  period  of  contagion. 

If  library  books  are  already  in  a house  when 
a case  of  contagious  disease  breaks  out,  they 
should  not  be  returned  to  the  library,  but 
should  be  given  to  the  agent  of  the  board  of 
health  to  be  fumigated.  No  fine  will  be 
charged  for  books  so  detained. 


CARE  OF  BOOKS 

All  books  and  periodicals  must  be  used  and 
handled  with  care. 

The  attention  of  borrowers  is  called  to  the 
following  law : — 


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Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts 
[Chapter  81,  Acts  of  1883,] 

Be  it  enacted , etc.,  as  follows : 

Section  1.  Section  seventy-nine  of  chapter  two 
hundred  and  three  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows: — Whoever  wil- 
fully and  maliciously  or  wantonly  and  without  cause 
writes  upon,  injures,  defaces,  tears  or  destroys  a 
book,  plate,  picture,  engraving,  map,  newspaper, 
magazine,  pamphlet,  manuscript,  or  statute  belong- 
ing to  a law,  town,  city  or  other  public  or  incor- 
porated library,  shall  be  punished  by  a fine  of  not 
less  than  five  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars,  or  by  im- 
prisonment in  the  jail  not  exceeding  six  months. 

Section  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its 
passage.  Approved  March  24 , 1883. 

Violations  of  this  statute  will  be  prosecuted 
according  to  the  law. 


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RECENT  ADDITIONS 

Bishop. 

Botchkaveva. 

Bucher. 

Bucher. 

Cerf. 

Chapman. 

Cram. 

Dargan. 

Dawson. 

Dickinson. 

Egan. 

Emerson. 

Gompers . 

Henderson. 

Hopkinson. 

Lodge . 

McCrae . 
Maeterlinck . 
Millais. 

Ogg. 

Palmer. 

Peabody. 

Phelps . 

PnxTIrpsnr 
Putnam. 

Roosevelt. 

Sedgwick. 

Spargo . 

Thayer. 

VanRensselaer , 
Wilder. 


MILTON  PUBLIC  LIBRARY 


April  1,  1919 


Industry  and  trade . 380 

Yashka  - my  life  as  peasant  officer 
and  exile.  B 

Practical  wireless  telegraphy.  654 

Vacuum  tubes  in  wireless  communication.  654 

Alsace-Lorraine  since  1870.  943.44 

Songs  and  poems.  811 

The  sins  of  the  fathers.  814 

The  cycle's  rim.  811 

Living  bayonets ; a record  of  the  last  push.  940.91 

Children  well  and  happy.  649 

Ten  years  near  the  German  frontier.  B 

The  early  years  of  the  Saturday  Club.  928 

American  labor  and  the  war.  331 

The  aims  of  labour.  331.8 

Greek  leaders.  920 

Christopher:  a study  in  human  personality.  134 
In  Flanders  fields  and  other  poems.  821 

The  Burgomaster  of  Stilemonde.  842 

Life  of  Frederick  Courtenay  Selous.  B 

National  progress,  1907-1917.  973.91 

Altruism:  its  nature  and  varieties.  171.8 

Education  for  life:  the  story  of  Hampton 
Institute.  370 

Selected  Articles  on  A League  of  Nations.  Ref. 172. 4 

'labor  'party. . 396 

On  duty  and  offjletters  written  in- France, 

May  19 17 -Sept ember  1918.  940.91 

The  great  adventure:  present  day  studies 
ini  American,  nationalism.  814 

Dante.  B 

Elements  of  socialism.  335 

VojLleys  from  a non-combatant . 940.91 

A ijnanual  of  homemaking.  640- 

Personal  identification.  573.6 

B 


Tallentyre .Translator w Voltaire  in  his  letters.’ 


Atherton. 
Ferber . 
Ferber. 
Gibbs . 
Gordon. 
Lockhart. 
MacGrath. 
Marmol . 
Reynold  s . 
Rideout. 
"Sapper" . 
Scott . 
VanDyke . 
Walpole. 
Welles. 
Wolcott. 


FICTION 
Ths  avalanche. 

Chaerful  - by  request. 

Empa  McChesney  & Co. 

Thje  black  stone. 

Thja  Sky  Pilot  in  No  Manx’s  Land. 

The  fighting  shepherdes’s . / 

The  private  wire  to  Washington. 

Amalia:  a romance  of  the  Argentine. 

Green  Valley. 

TinCowrie  Dass. 

The  human  touch. 

A daughter  of  two  worlds. 

The  valley  of  vision. 

The  secret  city. 

Anchors  aweigh. 

A gray  dream  and  other  stories  of  New  England  life. 


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RECENT  ADDITIONS 

May 

1,  1919 

American  Academy  of 

Political  and 

Social  Science. 

Industries  in  readjustment. 

306 

Archer. 

The  peace-president. 

B 

Baker. 

Dramatic  technique. 

808.2 

Benson. 

The  white  eagle  of  Poland. 

947.06 

Beston. 

Full  speed  ahead. 

940.91 

Bunkley . 

Military  and  Naval  recognition 

book.  355 

Burke. 

Nights  in  London. 

914.2 

Burroughs . 

Field  and  study. 

504 

Camp. 

Athletes  all. 

796 

Canfield. 

The  day  of  glory. 

940.91 

Dahamel . 

Civilisation. 

940.91 

Gregory ,Lady. 

The  Kiltartan  poetry  book. 

891.6 

Jellicoe . 

The  Grand  Fleet,  1914-1916. 

940.91 

Jordan. 

The  kinship  of  self  control. 

131 

Kipling. 

The  years  between. 

821 

Kirby . 

Military  abbreviations. 

Ref .355 

Laski . 

Authority  in  the  modern  state. 

321 

Luckiesh. 

Light  and  shade. 

515.63 

Moeller . 

Mol i ere:  a romantic  play  in  three 

acts. 

812 

Pack. 

The  war-garden  victorious. 

635 

Roosevelt. 

Autobiography. 

B 

R$?eht'hal . 

' Reconstructing  America.'"*1  ~ 

331 . 8 

Slater. 

Living  for  the  future. 

216 

Spargo. 

Bolshevism. 

323.2 

Strachey . 

Eminent  Victorians. 

920 

Swinburne . 

Letters  of  Algernon  Charles  Swinburne.  B 

FICTION 

Abbott . 

Old  Dad. 

Arnim. 

Christopher  and  Columbus. 

Beresford. 

The  Jervaise  comedy. 

Comstock. 

The  valley  of  vision. 

Conrad. 

The  arrow  of  gold. 

Dillon. 

The  Americans. 

Gibbons . 

A little  gray  home  in  France. 

Hurst. 

Humoresque . 

King. 

The  city  of  comrades. 

Leacock. 

The  Hohensollerns  in  America. 

MacGill . 

. Glenmornan. 

Nicholson. 

Lady  Larkspur. 

Porter. 

Dawn. 

Prouty . 

Good  sports. 

Rickard. 

The  fire  of  green  boughs. 

Ruck. 

A land-girl’s  love  story. 

Snaith. 

The  undefeated. 

Turner . 

Simple  souls. 

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RECENT  ADDITIONS 

June  1 

, 1919. 

Balfour. 

Dr.  Elsie  Inglis 

B 

Barrie . 

Alice  sit-by- the-f ire . 

822 

Benwell . 

History  of  the  Yankee  Division 

940.91 

Cabot. 

Social  work 

360 

Cantacuzene,  Princess. 

Revolutionary  days;  recollections  of 

Romanoffs  and  Bolshevik!. 

940.91 

Chamberlain. 

Vacation  tramps  in  New  England 

917.4 

DeBooy . 

The  Virgin  Islands, our  new  possessions. 

317.29 

Egan. 

The  war  in  the  cradle  of  the  world. 

940.91 

Fletcher. 

Indian  games  and  dances. 

970.6 

Gilliland. 

My  german  prisons. 

940.91 

Hay,Isn. 

The  last  million:  how  they  invaded 

France  and  England. 

940.91 

Hayward. 

How  to  become  a wireless  operator. 

654 

Hooker, Sir  Joseph. 

Life  and  letters. 

B 

Huntington, Ellsworth. 

World-power  and  evolution. 

575 

LaMotte , 

Peking  dust. 

915.1 

Leathern. 

The  comrade  in  white. 

940.91 

Levine. 

The  resurrected  nations . 

940.9 

Loisette . 

Assimilated  memory. 

154 

Lowell . 

Greater  European  governments. 

354 

Noyes . 

The  new  morning.  ^ 

821 

Rickenbacker . 

Fighting  the  flying  circus. 

940.91 

Russell.  - ~ 

Proposed  roads  to  freedom^ 

335 

Speare. 

World  war  issues 

940.91 

Surette . 

The  appreciation  of  music. 

780 

Whi tlock,Brand. 

Belgium. 

940.91 

FICTION 

Dodge. 

Rosy. 

James . 

Travelling  companions. 

Marshall . 

The  Clintons  and  others. 

Paine . 

Dwellers  in  Arcady. 

Patricia  Brent , spinster. 

Rohlfs. 

Room  no. 3 

Wemyss . 

Oranges  and  lemons. 

BOOKS  FOR  YOUNGER  READERS 

Bachman . 

Great  inventors  and  their  inventions 

y926 

Brown. 

Rainbow  Island. 

Godoy . 

When  I was  a girl  in  Mexico. 

y917 .2 

Grey. 

Rusty  Miller. 

Hale. 

Little  Allies. 

Heyliger . 

Fighting  for  Fairview. 

Parkman. 

Fighters  for  peace. 

y920 

Perkins . 

Cornelia. 

Pier. 

Dormitory  days. 

Smith. 

Good  old  stories  for  boys  and  girls. 

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